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Posted by AshTuckyUKfan (Member # 3065) on 10-03-2009, 03:11 PM:

Wanting to get some opinions on Saban's choice to fake a field goal with less than 4 minutes and an 18 point lead.

Personally I didn't much care for it when he did it, but I thought maybe he was doing like they said and just wanting to eat up the clock, then they throw a bomb into the endzone instead of running the clock out.

thoughts?

Posted by m hamilton (Member # 127) on 10-03-2009, 03:24 PM:

As the Cosby Kids used to say on the Fat Albert Show.

N C NO CLASS!!

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 10-03-2009, 05:35 PM:

They did it because UK was calling their timeouts. Obviously UK wasn't giving up by calling the timeouts so Bama chose to attack.

I see nothing wrong with the fake punt or the throw into the endzone due to UK calling the timeouts.

Posted by prophet (Member # 2089) on 10-03-2009, 05:41 PM:

Spot on, TB. It's big time football with big time consequences (Read: polls). That attitude by Saban is why he is where he is, earns what he earns, and his team has the players and records it does.

Posted by Brandon (Member # 108) on 10-04-2009, 09:26 AM:

I agree as well. That was a smart call on Saban's part. I thought UK should have stopped the runner, but that is a different story. I didn't like the result of the play, but after the play was over, I looked at my son and said, "That was a good play to call. Even if UK would have stopped it, it still would have been a good call."

Posted by boomdaddy (Member # 2644) on 10-04-2009, 10:39 AM:

Personally, I would have saved that for a close game. But, I don't get paid big money to coach football.